Re: suboptimal default fontconfig configuration

[Patrick Welche <prlw1%cam.ac.uk@localhost>]

On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 08:10:03PM +0200, Jukka Salmi wrote:
> Problem 2)
> 
> All the default [0-9]0-9]-*.conf files shipping with fontconfig are just
> installed to /etc/fonts/conf.d, which means that all of them are enabled
> by default.  The fontconfig default is to just enable some of them
> (see CONF_FILES and CONF_LINKS in
> xsrc/external/mit/fontconfig/dist/conf.d/Makefile.am).  Enabling all of
> them like it's currently done means that for example bitmap fonts are
> accepted and rejected at the same time (see 70-yes-bitmaps.conf and
> 70-no-bitmaps.conf)...
> 
> What about installing those config files to /etc/fonts/conf.avail and
> symlinking _some_ of them (probably the subset listed in CONF_LINKS)
> from /etc/fonts/conf.d, as it's recommended in the fontconfig README?

Well spotted! (no-sub-pixel and the oposite for all varities all enabled
at once...)

Cheers,

Patrick